Sunbird's Intelligent Capacity Search helps you locate cabinet space an item or qualify the space for your item based on model, make, RUs, and other specifications.

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Intelligent Capacity Management

Power Load by Day Report

The Power Load by Day report is a power/energy report that displays the daily average, minimum, and maximum loads over a period of time from PDUs or other user-defined sources.

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Power Load by Day Report

Power Control Actions

Power actions within Power IQ easily increase productivity by controlling the powering on/off of outlets, IT devices, and groups of IT devices with power sources spanning multiple rack PDUs, without the need to log into your rack PDUs individually.

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Power Control Actions

Capacity Forecast Chart

The Capacity Forecast Chart helps you identify your current power consumption trends and forecast when you will run out of power.

The IT Device List displays all IT devices supported by Power IQ, including servers and rack transfer switches.

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IT Device List

Facility Items List

The Facility Items List displays all items that Power IQ polls to gather power or sensor data. These include rack PDUs, CRACs, floor PDUs, floor UPSs, power panels, standalone meters, and environmental sensor aggregators.

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Facility Items List

Power IQ Events Listing

The Events Listing displays a list of warning, critical, and informational event notifications that are generated when certain conditions in your data center are met.

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Power IQ Events Listing

Cabinet Door Lock Control

See critical information about a door, including its mapped sensors, permissions, and auto-relock timer settings. Authorized users can lock and unlock doors on this page.

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Cabinet Door Lock Control

Door Security Status Report

The Door Security Status Report provides security status information for a door at the current date and time.

The Enterprise Data Model (EDM) shows hierarchical relationships among objects in your data centers, rooms, racks, and other locations, with one-click access to detailed information about each object.

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EDM Hierarchy Navigation

Card Reader Access Control

Power IQ supports card reader access control via RFID card readers. Within the software, you can view and update information about a card reader in the system, including serial number and manufacturer, associated doors, and permissions.

The dcTrack Health Map report color codes floor items with yellow and red when there are warning or critical level events, respectively, associated with the floor item (based on integration with Power IQ).

With SQL widgets, you can get the exact data you want via SQL queries and ODBC table views, or simply let Sunbird's Professional Services team know what you're looking for, and we'll create the widget for you.

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Adding SQL Widgets

Dashboard Widget Drilldown

See the raw data behind the chart with the widget drilldown feature. A single click takes you to a view with the original chart widget, a summary of the data, and the raw data in tabular form.

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Dashboard Widget Drilldown

DCOI Dashboard

The DCOI Executive Dashboard provides charts used to measure compliance with the key metrics for the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) mandate or any efficiency initiative.

This sample dashboard shows the maximum active power over the past year for multiple locations as well as capacity gauges for major locations.

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Active Power and Capacity by Location

Monthly Peak Power Report

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Monthly Peak Power Report

Power Control to Devices in a Group

Within the software, you can manually control power to devices in a group or schedule a task to run a power control operation at a specified time.

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Power Control to Devices in a Group

3D Visualization

Visualize cabinet and row elevations as if you are standing in front of them. Easily see cabinet contents including name, make, model and status. Monitor user configurable thresholds for space, power and cooling with ability to see near real-time readings for power, temperature and humidity.

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3D Visualization

Stranded Power Capacity per Cabinet

Smart charts display average active power, power capacity, events, and other information at the cabinet level.

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Stranded Power Capacity per Cabinet

Paperless Audit Mobile App

Access information from anywhere with your choice of smart phone or tablet with our mobile app. Create, read, update and delete items via your mobile device, and scan a cabinet bar code and view its full configuration. The app improves inventory management by enabling paperless audits and updates on the fly.

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Paperless Audit Mobile App

Cloning Assets and Cabinets

Cloning allows you to replicate multiple items, including the items they contain, so you can deploy new rollouts faster and with fewer human errors.

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Cloning Assets and Cabinets

Blade System Power Control

Power control blade chassis from within the Power IQ software.

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Blade System Power Control

Power Monitoring Dashboard

This sample Power Monitoring dashboard shows just a few of the metrics that can be tracked, including PUE, PDU health, events, and capacity forecast trends.

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Power Monitoring Dashboard

Patented Psychrometric Cooling Charts

Avoid hotspots and overcooling with patented electronic psychrometric cooling charts help you keep cabinets in the ASHRAE®- or manufacturer-recommended environmental ranges for potential cost savings and to extend the life of your equipment.

This sample PUE Dashboard shows two widgets for measuring power usage effectiveness: a PUE gauge and a PUE line chart.

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PUE Dashboard

About DCIM and Data Center Infrastructure Management Software

Today's data centers have increased in size, density and complexity. Managers need an easy to use Data Center Management System to improve efficiency through data center optimization, extending the useful life of their existing physical infrastructure, while ensuring uptime. A new category of tools with integrated processes, DCIM Software, combines the capability of tracking assets with the coordination and validation of managing space, power, data center cable management and cooling.